Holocaust

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A high school along Florida's Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative advocacy group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” was removed from a library at…

Group's report card of game and social media companies finds lack of policies, slow responses, and no action taken on user reports The ADL has released its 2023 Holocaust Denial Report Card, and while none of the social media platforms or gaming companies it assessed did an exemplary job of…

Wikipedia reflects historical disputes—but it can’t resolve them. Photo illustration by Slate Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Believe it or not, the hottest controversy on Wikipedia right now isn’t about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, or ChatGPT. In fact, it’s something seemingly more…

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Some years ago, at an exhibition in Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter, “The Persecution of the Jews in Photographs: The Netherlands, 1940–1945,” I was struck by single photograph of a young couple striding arm-in-arm through one of my adopted city’s most recognizable squares, the Dam, in front of the royal palace, in…

The undergraduates learned about each others’ histories and cultures. (March 31, 2023 / JNS) Adelphi University in Long Island, N.Y., inaugurated its first two-day trip to two museums in Washington, D.C. in early March to promote empathy and understanding between black and Jewish students. On the first day, the 18…

The agreement comes “during an unprecedented rise in antisemitism and decline in Holocaust literacy,” stated Rabbi Ari Berman, Yeshiva University president. (March 31, 2023 / JNS) Yeshiva University president Rabbi Ari Berman and Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to lay the groundwork for the…

(March 31, 2023 / JNS) Victims and relatives have yet to claim millions of belongings that Nazi authorities stole from Jews and others during the Holocaust, a British official said on March 28 during an international conference of Holocaust representatives in London. Eric Pickles, the United Kingdom government’s special envoy…

Published Mar 27, 2023  •  3 minute read Amina Abdulle, equity consultant for the Greater Essex District Public School Board, accompanied a group of two dozen educators on a trip to Poland to learn more about jewish life and the Holocaust. Photo by Amina Abdulle /Windsor Star A Windsor educator…

(RNS) — In 2008, Shay Pilnik was a Ph.D. student living in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, whose first university gig came in the form of a Holocaust course that nobody wanted to teach. “To pitch myself as a candidate for that class was very easy,” Pilnik said about becoming an adjunct instructor…